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by alexpetralia 1709 days ago
The "Twenty Questions" explanation of Shannon entropy is definitely the most intuitive one I've read so far. I've heard it repeated it many times, but I do see yours is from 2006! Thanks for this.

In particular here is where I read it (pdf): http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~simon/it.pdf